27/05/2013, Monday

VOCABULARY:
Fee, term, library, you are welcome, huge.

TODAY IN CLASS:
-Composiciones de esta semana (usurpación de personalidad por parte de algunos estudiantes).
-Corrección del DVD "House for four", chapter 2, section 3.
-Corrección de la segunda parte del test sobre verbos modales, con revisión simultánea de la explicación teórica.
-Libro, página 56, ejercicio a de la sección 1 GRAMMAR, para recordar los valores y diferencias entre HAVE TO / DON´T HAVE TO / MUST / MUSTN´T.
-Corrección de las tres primeras frases de traducción que tenemos pendientes.

HOMEWORK:
-Libro, página 57: lectura del texto + responder a las preguntas de compresión del ejercicio b de la sección 3 READING AND LISTENING (que está en la página 56).
-Ejercicio a de la sección 8A del GRAMMAR BANK, página 141 del libro.

Figures for this month

Evolución durante el último mes

Páginas vistas por países durante el último mes

Entrada	Páginas vistas
España	295
Estados Unidos	62
Rusia	60
Alemania	23
China	12
Filipinas	9
Iraq	6
Chile	5
Estonia	3
Francia	2

Entradas más visitadas durante el último mes

Entrada	Páginas vistas
Alphabet Soup, by Marta 14/05/2013, 2 comentarios	14
08/05/2013, Wednesday 09/05/2013	11
06/05/2013, Monday 07/05/2013, 2 comentarios	9
My favorite photo: the Great Wall of China, by Joh... 16/05/2013, 1 comentario	8
My favorite photo, by Pablo 15/05/2013, 1 comentario	8
One of these options? Or not? 12/05/2013	7
22/05/2013, Wednesday 24/05/2013, 2 comentarios	6
11/03/2013, Monday 11/03/2013	6
For next Monday 20/05/2007 18/05/2013	5
My favorite photo, by Marta 16/05/2013 Evolución de visitas desde su creación en abril de 2012	5

22/05/2013, Wednesday

TODAY IN CLASS:
-Revisión de la explicación teórica sobre MUST, MUSTN´T, HAVE TO y DON´T HAVE TO.
-Corrección de los ejercicios A y B de la sección 7C de la página 139 del libro, ambos ejercicios desde la frase número 3.
-Explicación de SHOULD / SHOULDN´T, OUGHT TO y CAN.
-Ejercicio B de la sección 8A de la página 141 del libro.
-Explicación de los conceptos de probabilidad (CAN, COULD, MAY, MIGHT) y de permiso (pedir permiso = CAN, COULD, MAY / dar permiso = CAN).
-Explicación del concepto de deducción positiva (George Clooney > 60 years old, con MUST) y deducción negativa (Halle Berry > 45 years old, con CAN´T).
-Corrección de la primera mitad de la fotocopia del test sobre verbos modales que apareció hace poco en el blog.
-Explicación sobre tres tipos básicos de oraciones condicionales: 
> tipo César, es decir, condición real = IF + SIMPLE PRESENT + SIMPLE FUTURE (con WILL + BARE INFINITIVE).
>tipo George Clooney, condición posible = IF + SIMPLE PAST + SIMPLE CONDITIONAL (with WOULD + BARE INFINITIVE).
>tipo Michael Jackson, condición imposible = IF + PAST PERFECT (with HAVE + PARTICIPLE) + PERFECT CONDITIONAL (with WOULD + HAVE + PARTICIPLE).
-Ejercicios de oraciones condicionales, algunas frases de la fotocopia.

HOMEWORK:
-Terminar fotocopia de oraciones condicionales.
-Terminar test sobre verbos modales.
-Reading + writing, página 113 del libro.

20/05/2013, Monday

VOCABULARY:
On holiday, above.

TODAY IN CLASS:
-Entrega de composiciones corregidas, y recogida de las de esta semana.
-Corrección de ejercicios referidos al texto de la página 112 del libro.
-Corrección de ejercicio sobre superlativos de una fotocopia entregada hace varios días.
-Corrección de ejercicio sobre comparativos y superlativos publicado en el blog.
-Explicación de los verbos modales: características generales, must, mustn´t , have to, don´t have to.
-Frases 1 y 2 de los ejercicios a y b de la sección sección 7C de la página 139, Grammar Bank.

HOMEWORK:
-Terminar los ejercicios a y b de la sección sección 7C de la página 139, Grammar Bank, desde la frase 3.
-Writing: página 113 del libro, ejercicios a, b y c. Seguramente no lo corregiremos hasta el lunes 27/05/2013, especialmente el ejercicio c (una redacción).
-Este ejercicio sobre verbos modales: 

In each sentence, choose the best word to complete the gap from the choices below (a, b, c, or d).

1. Are you going swimming? ______ I come with you, please?          

a) Should         b) Can             c) Must            d) Mustn´t        

2. I'm not going to pay £5 for a coffee. You ______ be joking!         

a) can              b) might          c) must            d) should          

3. This is a hospital. People are resting, so you ______ be quiet.     

a) might          b) could          c) should         d) can 

4. It ______ rain, so take an umbrella.         

a) might          b) must           c) should         d) can   

5. ______ I have a quick word with you? Something important has happened.        

a) Must            b) Could          c) Can              d) Should 

6. You ______ smoke here. It's a no-smoking area.    

a) Couldn't      b) Wouldn't     c) Mustn't      d) Mightn't         

7. You ______ come and visit us when you are in the area.

a) could           b) might          c) mustn´t      d) must 

8. I'm sure you ______ love this film. It's brilliant.     

a) could           b) can              c) might          d) may  

9. I ______ imagine why she married him. He's so stupid!     

a) can't            b) mustn't       c) mightn't      d) shouldn't

10. What ______ I do in your situation? You need some advice. 

a) may             b) must           c) could           d) should

11. The most important thing - you ______ forget to take the food out of the oven at seven o'clock. 

a) must            b) can't            c) mustn't        d) couldn't       

12. They left London at three o'clock so they ______ be here by now.      

a) could           b) should         c) might          d) can   

-Y estas frases para traducción: 

1. Parece que esa empresa está buscado a una persona sensible porque el jefe no quiere trabajar con un ladrón.

2. El portavoz explicó que ahora mismo ese negocio es enorme pero el Gobierno no puede gastar ese dinero en lo que sea.

3. Estos abogados querían decir que a ellos no les gusta ir a trabajar con una barba tan larga.

4. Estábamos sentados en aquel banco estrecho cuando una fila de personas llegó porque esperaban un milagro justo allí.

5. Había vivido una situación muy triste, pero ese paisaje le ayudó a olvidar el dolor, aunque no podía olvidar que su portátil estaba aún sobre el mostrador del bar de Rachel.

6. Ahora estaba embarazada y sentía que era más celosa que antes y, además, no podía ponerse su chaleco morado ni comer filetes poco hechos.

7. Hemos solucionado tu problema: hemos cogido la pistola y la policía no podrá encontrarla allí, hemos hecho fotos desde el tejado de la casa de Peter y hemos limpiado la sangre que había en el suelo.

8. El disfraz estaba junto a la chaqueta de cuero debajo del sillón porque Tom lo había puesto allí después de nuestra discusión sobre el vestido de novia de Rachel.

9. Quizá mis compañeros de piso alquilarán el salón, pero depende de la persona: no quieren a una persona extraña y no les gusta la gente que se queja por cualquier cosa.

TILL NOW WE HAVE STUDIED THESE UNITS FROM THE BOOK: 

1A / 1B / 1C / 2A / 2B / 2C / 3A /  3B /3C / 4A / 4B /4C  / 5A /5B (not finished) /7A / 7B /  7C (not finished)

For next Monday 20/05/2007

VOCABULARY AND HOMEWORK:
I´m sure you haven´t forgotten your writing for next Monday 20/05/2013 including the words we studied last week: pity, miracle, pain, darling, deal, right here, right now.

Besides, here you have an exercise to review the COMPARATIVE and SUPERLATIVE. You have to choose the correct words to fill the gaps in the sentences.

1. Your English is much __________ than mine. (better / best)

2. The __________ whisky comes from Scotland. (better / best)

3. We´ve had much __________ rain this year than last year. (more / most)

4. The place that gets the __________ rain in the world is a mountain in Hawaii. (more / most)

5. In the “Cheap Round the World Race”, the winner is the person who spends the __________ money getting round the world. (less / least)

6. I don´t know much, but she knows even __________ than I do. (less / least)

7. Which month has the __________ days? (fewer / fewest)

8. There are __________ Jews in Israel than in New York. (fewer / fewest)

9. - Are you any good at tennis?

    - I´m the __________ tennis-player in the world. (worse / worst)

10. – How is your headache?

     - It´s getting __________. (worse / worst)

     – I ´ll get you an aspirin. That´ll make you feel __________ (better / 

       best)

11. People say that Rolls-Royce cars are the __________ in the world.

     (better / best)

My favorite photo, by Marta

That day I was celebrating my small nephew’s birthday. It’s six years ago.

We were in my sister´s house, who is my nephew´s mother. There were more people, but they were having dinner while somebody took us this photo.

This photo is kept in my computer but I have to carry it to print as soon as possible because I don’t want to lose it.

I love this photo because it´s more lovely and we both were happier. Besides both were prettier.

I don’t remember who took the photo. I think that my brother took this photo in my sister´s dining-room.

It was a good day!

My favorite photo: the Great Wall of China, by Johnny

This is one photo taken in June of 2010. I went to China for work; I had to test vibrations in wind turbine. Before I was in there, I studied this great monument. I was impressed by the quantity of workers that died to end this work. I found these gigantic steps and somewhere there weren´t, or they had been deformed. Million of persons visit this wonder of the world. I have nice memories.

My favorite photo, by Pablo

One of my favorite photos is this one of my Canadian Bear friend. (It was a short friendship but very strong).

I took the photo in the summer of 1997 when I was on holiday in Canada, with my wife and two friends we met in Switzerland one year before.

We  were at a place called Canadian Rocky Mountains. It was a country road and our guide saw a black bear. He stopped the car and we (my two friends and I) approached the bear while my wife shouted more and more. The black bear was getting closer but we hadn’t any problems: the bear was eating flowers and other plants without paying attention. The bear went straight towards us and when it was four meters from us, it looked at us one moment and was on the other way. What an exciting experience!

My wife told us that we had been stupid because the bear could have killed us but I answered that it seemed like a sheep and it was less dangerous than walking along San Jerónimo Street in Madrid.

When we were in the hotel, the rest of the group said us that they took several good photos but they wanted the bear had attacked us so they could take the best photo in their lives (I think they didn’t mean that… or yes!).

I love this photo because it’s exciting, like the place and the animals (deer, elk, caribou, …) and it reminds me of a lovely holiday.

I keep the photo in one of the three photo albums of our holidays in Canada. We spent seven camera films and nowadays we have taken thousands of digital photos.

13/05/2013 (Bruce Springsteen)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85cNRQo1m3A

You and me we 1. __________ the pretenders, we let it all slip away.
In the 2. __________ what you don't surrender, well the 3. __________ just strips away.
Girl, aint no kindness in the 4. __________ of strangers,
Aint gonna find no 5. __________ here.
Well you can 6. __________ on your blesses, my 7. __________.
I got a 8. __________ for you right here: I aint looking for praise or 9. __________,
I aint coming round 10. __________ for a crutch,
I 11. __________ want someone to 12. __________ to
And a 13. __________ of that 14. __________ 15. __________.
11. __________ a 13. __________ of that 14. __________ 15. __________.
Aint no mercy on the 16. __________ of this 17. __________,
Aint no 18. __________ from heavenly skies,
Aint nobody drawing 19. __________ from this 20. __________,
It´s just you and me 21. __________.
Tell me, in a 3. __________ without 9. __________,
Do you 22. __________ what I´m asking´s too much?
I 11. __________ want to 23. __________ you in my arms,
24. __________ a 13. __________ of that 14. __________ 15. __________.
24. __________ a 13. __________ of that 14. __________ 15. __________.
Oh girl, that 24. __________ of safety you prize
Well it comes at a 25. __________ 25. __________ price.
You can't shut off the risk and the 26. __________
Without losing the 27. __________ that remains.
Were all riders on this 28. __________.
So you´ve been 29. __________ and you´ve been 30. __________,
Show me 31. __________ who aint.
Yeah, I know I aint 32. __________ bargain,
But, hell, a little touch up and a little 33. __________...
You might need something to 34. __________ on to
When all the 35. __________ they don't amount to much,
Somebody you could just to 12. __________ to
And a 13. __________ of that 14. __________ 15. __________.
Baby, in a 3. __________ without 9. __________,
Do you 22. __________ what I´m asking´s too much?
I 11. __________ want to 23. __________ you in my arms,
24. __________ a 13. __________ of that 14. __________ 15. __________. (TWICE)
23. __________ a 13. __________ of that 14. __________ 15. __________. (TWICE)
24. __________ a 13. __________ of that 14. __________ 15. __________.
23. __________ a 13. __________ of that 14. __________ 15. __________.

36. __________ me a 13. __________ of that 14. __________ 15. __________.

36. __________ you a 13. __________ of that 14. __________ 15. __________.

Alphabet Soup, by Marta

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